“Introduction to Target Community & Program”

Now that you have a narrowed focus for your project in terms of having information to begin to justify a program to meet a HP 2020 Objective (From assignment #1), it is now important to learn more about the specific community you want to help and about the program you would like to see implemented in this community. Step two is the introduction to your chosen target community & program intervention sample. While the first assignment gave you a chance to articulate a need based on literature and your clinical assessment, this next assignment asks you to narrow your focus to a manageable “community” and to continue to confirm the need for a program to meet your selected HP 2020/2010 objective and to begin to craft your idea for the design of a program. As you can imagine, it is critical in health promotion to implement “programming of meaning” for the participants. Otherwise, you run the risk of not getting “buy in” from your targeted community, and that would be a waste of your time. https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives (Links to an external site.) Required components for Assignment #2: Introduction to Target Community & Program Intervention Sample and Program The assignment should be typed out on a word document in APA format. Each paragraph should consist 5-6 complete sentences. The assignment should consist of 1,500- to 3,000-words (excluding title and reference pages). This assignment must be completed and submitted on a Microsoft word document. APA format is required. 12 font size should be used, font names that should be used are Times New Roman or Cambria (not both), normal margins (no more than 1 inch), double spaced, indentation, etc. Please include title page that consist of your name (First and Last), Panther ID number and title of the article (APA format).In addition, include a references page that consist of three (3) references from creditable resources. Description of Target Community. Describe, succinctly, the “community” that you perceive can be targeted to meet the selected HP 2020 Objective. Community means the target population that is within your reach and that is at risk for not meeting this HP 2020 objective. Describe the following: (a) Stated target objective from HP 2020 (Same as assignment #1 targeted objective). (b) Description of your “community” at the city or county or municipality level; in other words, “who are these people?” in terms of demographics; you can typically find this demographic data from census databases or other national or local databases or information that is within the public domain. (c) You must include important epidemiological “person, place and time” information about your target community. This includes target population size and target population demographics. Include local incidence and prevalence rates of health outcomes that are directly related to your chosen Healthy People 2020 health behavior. *With regards to the “community”, I strongly recommend you target a relatively narrow segment or community. For example, it would be advisable to choose to target the issue of underage drinking and subsequent car crashes in a target community within your county, city, town or local school district versus addressing this issue by choosing a chosen target community of your entire state.